They had a condition called progeria, meaning that they aged much more rapidly than normal mice.

这些小白鼠都处在一种叫做早衰的状态。意思是，这些小白鼠比一般正常状态下的小白鼠要衰老的快很多。

In particular, their hearts and blood vessels aged normally (or, rather, what passes for normally in mice with progeria).

尤其是小白鼠的心脏和血管在正常衰老（或那些在小白鼠体内被认为是正常衰老的细胞）的时候，也会遭遇这样的情况。

But we both checked 97 last month… Progeria surely would have ended us sooner, no?

但上个月我们都检查了 97… … 早衰症肯定会更快结束我们，不是吗？

And then you would be one of hundreds of millions of people with a genetic disease, such as sickle cell anemia or progeria or muscular dystrophy or Tay-Sachs disease.

然后你将成为数亿遗传性疾病患者中的一员，比如镰状细胞性贫血、祖细胞性贫血、肌肉萎缩或泰—萨克斯病。

And children with progeria are born with a T at a single position in their genome where you have a C, with the devastating consequence that these wonderful, bright kids age very rapidly and pass away by about age 14.

而患有早衰症的孩子出生时，他们的基因组中有一个T位于你有C的位置，伴随着毁灭性的后果，这些优秀、聪明的孩子会非常迅速地衰老并在14岁左右过世。